[Linux-disciples] Re: Continuing name-resolution weirdness

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 06:18:15PM -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> I really don't think the wireless has anything to do with your problem,
> it probably would be the same problem if you moved from ethernet to
> ethernet zone without rebooting.  Are you ifdown/ifup'ing each time you
> switch?

Yep. Though I'm not entirely sure what gets reset when I
ifdown/ifup. E.g., one of my clients uses a non-broadcast
ESSID, so I have to force a certain ESSID when there (with
'iwconfig eth0 essid [blah]', if you're not familiar with
the tools). When I ifdown/ifup at my next location, is the
ESSID reset?

ifdown/ifup-ing doesn't always work for me. I did that when
I left the aforementioned client and got on my home network;
no dice: my card sent out a broadcast and nothing happened.
I even manually released my DHCP license ('dhclient -r') and
*then* ifup/ifdown'ed. That didn't work, so I ran a few
daemons in /etc/init.d that seemed relevant (dns-clean and
networking). Again, no dice. I rebooted and everything
worked fine.

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